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Skilled pupilloplasty improves patients’ visual function and appearance
Surgical repair of the iris is a frequent procedure for the consultative ophthalmic surgeon. My first introduction to suture repair of the iris came from one of my early mentors, Malcolm McCannel, MD. He developed the so-called McCannel suture technique primarily to help stabilize subluxated iris-supported IOLs following intracapsular cataract extraction in the 1970s. Malcolm also applied his suture technique to repair irises damaged by trauma. He traveled the world teaching his McCannel suture technique with surgical movies, not videos, and often quipped while lecturing that his “reputation hung on (Read more...)